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RUSSIA ΤΟ SET UP AN EASTERN UNION

Prague, October 12.

Reliable sources said today that Russia has decided to sponsor an Eastern Union to offset Wostorn Europe's Western Union.

The decision

to form o Federation of Eastern Europe's "People's Democracies" was taken at a conference of top Eastern political leaders in the Crimea last month, The Federation

Beaverbrook For Moscow

Melbourne, October 12. Mr Robert Elliott, war-time assistant to Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian born newspaper

ENORMOUS

COST OF

BRABAZON

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1948.

One-Man Air Force In Jail

Bingapore, October 12. The Indonesian Informa- tion Service axld today that' Bobby Freeberg, of ParRONE, Kahras Indonesia's Коле man air force," is being held In Dutch Jall in Batavia,

The report sald that Froe- berg, who was reported miss- ing on October 1 while flying between Republican Java and Bumatra, was forced down by #ix Dutch fighters at Palembang. Dutch bass In South Sumatra.

The Service ald Freeberg Then was arrested and taken to Batavia., where he piano, an Indonealan.registered C-47, WRI Prest.

confiscated.-Associated

White Isle In À Yellow Sea

Conferences On German Industry

London, October 12.

Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, the Marshall Plan Adminis-

V

trator, arrived here tonight by air from Paris with Mr. Avoroll Harriman, the Marshall Plan special representative, and Mr. Lowis Douglas, the American Ambassador in London.

Paris Mr. Hoffman reached from Washington last night in company with Mr. George" Marshall, the American Secre- tary of State. Mr Hoffman, it was officially announcell, will;

Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, tomorrow morning for talks on the Euro- pean Recovery Programme..

Mr. Hoffman had an hour's talk this afternoon with the French Foreign Minister, M. Ro- bert Schuman, on German parations and the dismantling of German factories.

ro-

Bristol, October 12. The latest all-in cost of the would In-mania. Its planners,were re-

In- todiant Brabazon air liner, rlude Poland, Czechoslovakia, puited to be hoping also Hungary, Bulgaria and Ru-bring in Yugoslavia despite it cluding the £6,000,000 hangar quoted дя expulsion from the Cominform and runway was

The Russion zone, in Austria £12,000,000 by Mr. George B. was also reported to be under Strauss, the Minister of Supply, cuasitieration for membership.when he inspected it at Bristol The participation of Eastern Ger- today. many, however, was believed to

Asked by newspapermen it he be left En later discussion. felt that the "enormous cost" of The ranet form of the propose the aircraft and the delays of its ed organisation was not revealed. Right were justifiest, he salet:

fearned that over a But it was

"Personally, I am quite satu- scure of experts from participat-fied. Delays are inevitable in u Ing countles were called to project of this kind 1 am co- magnate, suggested today gother

Prague 1

this werk, vinced that this plane will be a through his group of Austra- handled a mmeographed outline success. lian newspapers that Lord of the plan and told to work out I believe that the money apeat Beaverbrook, be sent to Moscow | technical detalls.

it and the on

Inbour and re- "to clear up issues direct with The Federation is expected to

Mr. sources put into it will be fully be basert fargely on economie en-justified. When the job is finished Stalin."

Elliott, s peronal ungistant be operation, probably starting with 1 think everyone will refer the Minister of Alteraft Produc customs union and co-ordion-this venture as an example of the Hinn, went in Moscow with Lon

economic imagination and skill and enter Beaverbrook in 1941.

prise of the British

aircraft in

11 is understood here that Mr. dustry".

Hoffman has modified his original. He thought that the Brabazon would take the air "very early

"The United Nations," he de- proposal for sending o commis- clared, "will not continue to toston to Germany for three months next

yene", adding: "This is

lerate a white Australian polley to study the reparations and 24- test to see whether aeroplanes of

is greatly mantling questions and hos sub- unless the population this kind are winners und if wo ont they are we shall no

stKuted a suggestion for a short doubt iterensed"

visit by a small group of experts. embark on other big projects, This is not merely a prestige ven-

newspapers

Lodny

that the Britishi newspaper owner had "terally fascinated thr Russian leader and achieved a brilliant sucress with Stalin when no one elke guld have Recom plished it".

long-range plans among the states.

Under Russio

A will be under Russian con. trol but will not be annexed to

Russia or form A new state.

Rather it will follow the lines It was learned today that the of the Benelux Customs Union. Ull, suggesting for Deaverbrook Each member would retain mission has alrity been brought; own government and diplomatic to the attention, informally, of representation brond, Dr. Herbert Evalt, the Australian Foreign Minister--Reuter

BRITAIN SAYS "THANK YOU"

London, October 12.

The co-ordination of foreign

| policy, which is already i prne-

iral nality, IN

is certain to be greally increased under the pro- pered rosor lunastiran.

Observera iwere recalled that anly a year or so ago Moscow sliq post down Mr. Dimitrav for

Balkan Federations Tuy believed that the Comin- Mr. John Strachey, the Min-hem's expulsion of Marshal Tita isterul Fond, today opened u three months

Ex-least party motivated by fear of “Britain says thank yous," hibition for food Cifts from the Tue-sponsored Federation which woul:! challenge Russian beremony in Eiern Europe.

Stalin's Part

overseas.

it was announced at the open ing ceremony that from Decem ber 1945 to larch 1940 gut 100d parcels totaling over 106,596,001|| lus, weight nud. been

received

tron does in Australia, Cunud, South Africa, New Zeamnd, the Colonies, the United States elsewhere.

AnG

Since 1980 more than 50,308,000 parcels had reached Britain.

The exhibition

illustrates

191

ADD WIN

'also at

Today, however, it is Moscow and top lenties in Moscow- who punetkmed and presumably. proposed the Feceration.

One conclusion here was that the Russian control has reached Buch = point in all Eastern satellites that there is no long- er any danger of

of them turning again the USSR.

ture".

to

Although Brabazon I was more ly axperimental, It was hoped that Brabazon 11 the start on production of which had st. ready begun would go into earylce.

The chief designer said thaist although the structure weighed 120,000 lbs recently, it was with in 38 lbs of the weight estimated two years ago, There was no rea son why the Brabazon should be more unwickily in the air than smaller aircraft, he said.-Reuter.

Now Up To Mother's Family

Capetown, October 12.

Canberra, October 12.

"Shameful" Racial Practices

Paris, October 12.

The Russian delegate on the United Nations Social Committee today said "dirty and shameful" relal practices existed in the United States, South Afrien and the British Colonies.

The Soviet's Alexel P. Pavlov In London, he is expected to cald, during a debate on the Hu- discuse similar questions with Mr.

man Rights declaration, that the United States forbade negroes to Bevin, Mr. Hoffman will return

travel in the same railway car- to Paris on Wednesday to preside

ringes or whites. This would be over a conference of the Euro- Willlam M. flughes, pean Australian Prime Minister in on

Co-operation

Administra-punished in Russin ns a "crime"

he added. chiefs. He will then visit

In South Africa, he continued, World War I, said in the House several ECA countries to study

10 laws discriminated against the of Representatives today that programmes there.

coloured population. Negroes in white "remains a Australia

British Colonies were also mis- Island in a yellow sea."

treated, he charged,

Mr. Hughes, who is 84, recalled that at the 1919 peace conference

he insisted on the retention of a white Australia un the under- standing that Australia's Euro- penn population rose.

Japan, he sold, had a population of 400 to the square mlic.

an Australian population of only Could world opinioni tolerule

four to the square mile?

Britain and France, it is fur- ther understood, are prepared on their wide for the retention In Germany of several selected factorica which, In their opinion, could really be valu- able for European recovery during the period covered by the Marshall Plan,

South Africa's Charles De Wa- ter asked the chairman to bah xuch words

"dirty" and

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"shameful" in debate.

The

chnirman, Mr. Charles Malik of the Lebanon, sald there were no rules of procedure quali- fying permissible expressions— United Press.

Human Freedom Threatened

New York, October 12. General Dwight Eisenhower declared today that "human freedom is today threatened by regimented statism. The threat

more than

They have, however, strongly maintained the objection to sus i pending the agreed programme of dismantling, which they con- sider would be tantamount to Is infinitely abandoning the whole reparations involved in opposing ideolog- scheme on which an agreement ies". was so labouriously reached.

General Eisenhower, who

that

Was

Mr. Arthur Catwell, Austra Han Minister for Immigration, announced today that the total number of new settlers in Ass trails in the first six months of this year was 26,700. Of these 18,000 or 66 per cent) A Reuter report from Frank-delivering his inaugural address s President of Columbia Univer- were British subjects. Among the furt tonight snid the German su-

remainiter

were

1.000 Latvians, thorities of the Bizone hope to continued: "In today's strug- 1,000 Puies,

000 Americans, 800 discuss directly with Mr. Hoff-le no free man can be neutral. Lithuanions, nearly 1,000 Greeks, man an alternative to the dis-All must be included, 600 Italians and 200 Germans.

erl, refuted

Industrial

The principle danger of govern- mantling of German

ment control of property was not The figures, the Minister claim- plant. They propose that do- "the historic inefficiency of gov suggestion that liveries of newly produced muernment management of produe- Australia's Immigration policy chinery should take the place of live enterprises, but the fact that Vice-Admiral Edward Me-was resulting in an influx of for dismantled factories as war re-the final concentration of owner- Carthy, Commander-in-Chief, signers.----Reuter. the loud received in bulk goes to At the Crimea meeting lost British South Atlantic Station, Generalissimo Josef said that the time. had come aged and needy people through mouth,

Mr. V.M. authorities Stalin and the agency of local

Molotov for South Africa to play, a is distributed were believed to have conducted greater part in the Common-

photographs how 70 per cent of

and how the rest

to hospitals, old peoples' homes the Sessions In person. The wealth's naval defence.

and schools.

Mr. Strachey said the exhibi- Don had been arranged to coin- cide with the visit to London the Dominion Prime Ministers, collective expression of the thanks to donors all over the

world-Reuter.

LB

non-Russian's present were top

nikers of the policy Satellites.

Britain could no longer afford Eastern to maintain the same forces us she used to and it was now up

Not a word about the meeting to the "Mother Country's family

to accept greater responsibilities

parations.-Reuter.

PROSTITUTION ON THE INCREASE

Bangkok, October 13.

for protecting trade on the high Prostitution is on the increase in Bangkok, whore

or what was discussed there had been permitted to leak out before today's disclosure of the Federa- seas. tion plans-United Press.

POLITICS A MENACE TO PRESS FREEDOM

London, October 12.

A. P. Wadsworth, oditor of the Manchester Guar

dian, today warned a meeting of editors of the dangers of political interference in the free- dom of the press.

He thought that, in the course

500 prostitutes are licensed by the police.

Bangkok restricted

ship in the hands of the govern- ment gives it absolute power over our lives".

The

Inauguration

ceremony

was the first of its kind since the late Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's Installation in 1902–Reuter.

CAF OFFICERS EXECUTED

Shanghal, October 13. Two Chinese Air Force officers of tiny, Simonstown nuval

of G-2 (intelligence) were ex- ccutod here yesterday afternoon stution should be luken over-en- At least that... many. more about 70 in tirely by the South African Nuvy.solicit without licenses, says to certuin localities--puy 30 ticals for having transmitted commer- Despite the introduction of

clal messages

radio new Colonel Luang Bhisit Vidya- for a three month license.

aver CAF Polica doctors Inspect the weapons and the development of kara, chief of the city Criminal

stations to make personal profit the atomic bomb, the Navy sill Investigation Division (CID).

houses regularly. They also In end disturb the national economy. had a very important function, he

spect prostitutes when they gat

The officers were Major Yul Most of them are Siamese or said.

their licenses renewed.

Ming and Lance Corporal Shao In the future, the protection of Chinese, he said. The Chinese

Licenses are taken uway from Ti-son. They were sentenced to trade would be a combined job cone from Canton, Hong Kong girls with venereal disease. They death by a court murtial early for the Navy and Air Force--and Shunghal. The total number, are given free medical treatment this year-Reuter, Heuter..

sulei Luang Bhisit, is "slightly up at a lucal health centre and can from last year and "much in- get their

licenses back when creased since the Japanese BC cured. cupation.

The CID is Investigating re- ports from Malaya that prestflutes To get a prostitution license, have been smuggled info Singa- the woman must be more than pere and other Malayan ports from

US MILITARY AID TO CHINA

Washington, October 12, American military ald. to China

according to an

TANK EXPLOSION Mr. Wadsworth told the "On this we may help, for n

Sunderlandi, October 13.. Liberal International Confer- study of the way things havej Eleven men were injured yes- ence of Foreign Liberal Editors gone, for instance, in Czechoslo- | terday in the explosion of that he did not rate political vaktin, shows how little is to be damaged tank they were repair-15 years old. She must be adopt-Siang but for cannot disclose in the last six months amounted

gained by confpromise. Concessing aboard the 8,400 ton tankering the "oldest profession" wil details of what they have, found, to $88,275,170. Interference, high in Britain,

slons have not been reciprocated." British Venture building here. "but unhappily it is true that

ingly"without inducement or

says Luang He told editors to consider the Seven were reported in poor con-threats from others," must newspapers are at the mercy "terrille problems" that had arisen dition last night.

"healthy and free from venereat of State decisions for their very through press suppression behind The shipbuilders, Joseph L. disease." means of existence."

the iron curtain and the exile of Thompson and Sons, said the liberals from oppressed countries.

"We shall be the first logo cause of the blast has not been months-cost 12 tleais. Operators established-Associated Press. of licensed houses.....there are

He noted that freedom of the press was now a subject beture down if the black night of totali- the United Nations and said, "tarianism descends on us," he am not sure that some ol our anid,

Western governments have nut At the conference were editors gone much to far, for the sake from Denmark, Greece, Norway, of agreement, to meet opponents Sweden, Switzerland und Belgium. of press freedom,

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